But Gretel and Hansel take detours that find them seeing silhouettes in the trees, conversing with mushrooms and, finally, happening upon the home of an old woman, Holda (Alice Krige).

Stephen King narrates a new audiobook version of "Hansel and Gretel," blending his storytelling with Maurice Sendak's illustrations.

In this retelling, Gretel, played transfixingly by Sophia Lillis (the It films, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase), is a 16-year-old taking care of her 8-year-old brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey).

To put it simply, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is shiny. So, I guess I know why it’s popular. It’s got blood, it’s got guts, it’s got a pretty girl’s butt.

How ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Flips the Fairy Tale Script. It’s a big bad world out there and the latest film from horror director Oz Perkins gives us just a taste of it.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a genial riff on the old German fairy tale. The movie nods in the direction of the well-known story—the evil crone, the gingerbread cottage, the oven-bound ...

Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner can’t do anything to save the ghastly “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.” (David Appleby)‘I’m Really quite a fan of your work,’’ a young man tells ...

While Gretel can not bring herself to kill or devour Hansel, she admits the witch was right about him holding her back. They both needed to find their own stories.

Transforming “Hansel and Gretel” into a horror movie is hardly a cognitive leap, and it’s been done before, but perhaps never as stylishly and intelligently as in Osgood “Oz” Perkins ...

Hansel and Gretel Metropolitan Opera; 3,800 seats, $275 top Production: A Metropolitan Opera presentation, originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, of an opera in ...

In a way, I have been writing about kids like Hansel and Gretel for much of my life,” King says of the audiobook, out this ...

“Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is not a good film — it’s inconsistently acted, and somehow both underwritten and overplotted — but it has some good things going for it.